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About Roger Moore

Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine

Movie Preview: One last sales pitch for “IF,” with Ryan Reynolds

Maybe it’s just me, but strong rhymes-with-mean/rhymes-with-lecturn energy from all the trailers for this one. Or, at least a taste of “Free Guy.” I get wanting to do something for kids. Wasn’t “The Adam Project” enough? Or is Krasinski just … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Rowing Adventure Bros compare their plight to Boat People Refugees — “Beyond the Raging Sea”

Making any movie is like trying to paint and write, telling a story and sending a message, on the sides, roof and undercarriage of a moving train. Once that train has left the station, you’re kind of at the mercy … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: James McAvoy — “Speak No Evil”

Two couples, a “not quite right” child, and a sinister subtext. Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy are the hapless pair thrown in with McAvoy and Alex West Lifler in this version of a recent Danish film (with one couple Dutch) … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Yorgos, Emma, Willem and Jesse — “Kinds of Kindness”

Not even bothering to suggest what his latest film “might” be about. That’s reputation, for you. June 21, we’ll find out.

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Movie Review: “The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady”

The stakes are higher, the set pieces grander and new heroes arrive, along with new villains, in “The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady,” the second half of the sprawling, brawling and fresh French take on Alexandre Dumas’ beloved novel. … Continue reading

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Next Screening? The next “Civil War” must be experienced in IMAX

Let’s see what all the fuss is about, wot wot? This wasn’t previewed in my market, but truth be told I have been kind of dreading it, no matter how good and no matter what points this “future is now” … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Cops chase killers and drugs in 1950s San Francisco in “The Lineup”

Don Siegel won a couple of Oscars for short films early on, did a lot of 1950s and ’60s TV, directed Elvis and John Wayne and the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” He was behind the camera for enough … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Big City Chef feels “No Pressure” when she’s tricked to moving back to the farm

A bit of food, a dash of moonshine and a smattering of local color decorate “No Pressure,” a lackluster, lumbering Polish romantic comedy about finding love and life balance by leaving the big city for grandma’s farm. Cinematographer turned director … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Nick Frost lives through the (comic) horror of “Krazy House”

Alicia Silverstone co-stars in this nightmarish twist on a ’90s sitcom that turns murderous, thanks to the arrival of bloody minded Russians It’s from those Dutch treats who gave us the ultrasound violent “New Kids” movies.

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Movie Review: Palestinian teens weigh the consequences of life under “Alam” (The Flag)

Long before a Palestinian activist/agitator has confronted a busload of tourists to an Israeli “Plant a Tree in Israel” forest with “Just think of the refugees they keep out of your news,” viewers of the new film “Alam” have figured … Continue reading

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